Thinkers

Educator entities are the individual theorists, reformers and founders this atlas documents, from ancient foundational figures through contemporary researchers, grouped into seven bands by primary scholarly contribution: Learning and Cognitive Theorists, Curriculum and Instructional Design Theorists, Cooperative and Collaborative Learning Theorists, Founders of Named Pedagogical Methods and Movements, Institutional Founders and System Builders, Equity and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Theorists, and Educational Philosophers and Progressive Reformers. This band is the atlas's biographical spine for education: a thinker's page links out to the approach they founded, the theory they authored and the institutions they built or led, so browsing by thinker is browsing the field by its people rather than by its ideas.